Chapter 16 DORSET AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT

Of the hundreds of hotels whose hospitality we enjoyed-or endured-in Britain, no other was so barbarously gorgeous as the Royal Bath at Bournemouth. The furnishings were rich, though verging to some extent on the gaudy, and the whole place had an air of oriental splendor about it made the more realistic by "fairy grottoes" and gilded pagodas on the